Gmail not echoing your own posts to Yahoogroups back to you. About 6 months ago or so I switched to using Gmail as my outgoing mail server as well as my incoming. I still use a local email reader. Now, I belong to and contribute to quite a large number of Yahoogroups some of which I run. It puzzled me that my own posts to those groups weren't coming back to me via the inbox. It finally got sufficiently annoying to research and at that point I discover that this is a known bug in Gmail and has been for getting on for 2 years. Your outgoing email is in the sent and all folders in Gmail. But when the email is echoed back to you by yahoogroups, gmail is not so helpfully just discarding it. Probably because it has the same email ID as one already in their database. This is just wrong, but clearly isn't going to get fixed. The work arounds are all abit messy because you have to use a different smtp send server to normal and/or a different send email address just for posting to yahoogroups.

What I haven't checked yet is whether the same behaviour happens in mailing lists hosted in googlegroups or mailman.
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One for the music historians. Where are the links between Hawkwind and The Clash? Hawkwind always had ties to the Westway end of Portobello road, Moorcock (with his house in the area), the Mountain Grill and so on. Motorhead was formed by Lemmy in Ladbroke Grove. Phil Taylor's girlfriend worked in Malcolm Maclaren's/Westwood's Sex in the Kings Road. Strummer lived in Ladbroke Grove. Mick Jones, Strummer knew and worked with Sex Pistols members. So really you have to think that in '74, '75 the Clash members must have known and to some extent been influenced by the older and previous generation of deviants.
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A message to The Boiler Room, Fact magazine and one or two others. Putting auto-start videos and music clips in your RSS feeds is anti-social. It's pretty damn annoying on your web pages as well. This isn't early oughties MySpace or late 90s Geocities any more. Please stop it.
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20,000 units electric bicycle sales in the UK in 2011 seems quite a lot considering that electric bicycles are quite hard to buy, maintain and get support for in the UK.

http://www.bikebiz.com/index.php/news/read/uk-bike-sales-slip-in-2011/013764
2nd in bicycles sales, 7th in e-bicycle sales in Europe. Germany tops both.

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Bruce Sterling apparently has a thing for Simon Reynolds. He's gushing about Simon's latest article. I do like his comment though. "No one has new cultural ideas in this decade. They cost too much."
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/10/against_recreativity_critics_and_artists_are_obsessed_with_remix_culture_.single.html

The post-modern problem of the inability to break out of influences and create something new is a problem for us consumers and critics as much as for the artists. We seem unable to relate to new pieces of art without saying "that's just like that thing X did 10 years ago."

Meanwhile, why doesn't Wired's comments system work?

A Resident Advisor commenter has another view: http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=208624 "What an absolute load of drivel. Masturbation with a thesaurus."

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iPod - Bicycle - Boombox recommendations wanted
I'm still looking for a small boombox. I've had several X-Minis but I'm looking for something a bit more powerful.
- To be carried on a bicycle so must be fairly small and light.
- Fed by an iPod Classic so 3.5mm jack, I don't need bluetooth.
- Rechargeable battery. Needs to run for a few hours at full power. 
- Bass weight is as important as overall volume
- Cheap is good, obviously. So not silly money.
Any recommendations?
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Ok, this is cool. Plus she's got yellow nail varnish on only one hand.

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Having trouble finding the following. Does that mean I have to buy them?!?

Indigo - Wake EP
DFRNT - Rising Tide / Sunflower / Triple Threat EP
DFRNT - Monday Morning EP
Bass Clef - Dawn Chorus Pedal
Gatekeeper & Orphan101 - Deep Space Objects
Hizatron & Bashley - Discharge
Holy Other / Indigochild - Split
Artifact - Worn EP
Recondite - DRGN / Wist 365

To be fair, the last two were only dropped today. When you get out on the edge, even P2P and the russian file locker download sites no longer work. Quite a few of them aren't even on YouTube (yet).
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524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year. So what's the total disk drive shipment, what's that in TB of total storage space (or PB, EB, YB, ZB) and how does that compare with the increase in data needing to be stored?

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Punk was 35 years ago. What possible relevance could it have today? Do we really need another exhibition of Punk culture[1]? But then look at those CRASS slogans! "Who do they think they're fooling; you?", "This Poster Exploits You". Apparently, post-modernist situationism never gets old.

[1] A free exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, on until 4th November 2012.

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Wow! Extraordinary essay on GENRE vs. ISM and post-GENRE vs. post-ISM in music. And especially another take on misogyny in the dance music scene.

Incidentally, she talks a lot about Kuedo-Severant and LV-Sebenza, two full length albums that I find quite hard work.

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Thinking about retro-futurism, from Steampunk to the chrome-fins of the 50s rocket age, we look at it now with a wry smile because the future didn't turn out like that and it really looks quite quaint.

Now keep moving forwards, 70s and 80s futurism also looks curiously old fashioned or is in the process of becoming so. But wait, what was futurism like in the 90s? What is it now? When will that appear quaint, if it doesn't already, and why?
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THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States.

Better send in the drones then. /s

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I was looking at this: 9mm thick, portable, 2.5", 500GB hard drive. And apparently it's that time of year when I ask again why the iPod Classic is still limited to 160Gb. I think Apple should bite the bullet and produce the Pro Audio, iPod Classic Mk7. Actually make it bigger so it will take a completely standard 2.5" drive, put an iPod touch screen on the front, battery and iPod touch circuitry in the back and use a quality pro-audio output stage. Then offer the 500Gb version at $199.99 and the 1Tb version at $249.99. Those prices are probably unrealastically low for the margins and small volume so $100 more would still be ok.

If not Apple, then somebody else with an Android version of the same thing? 

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Just trying to build a Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone in my castle.

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So farewell, then, Andy Williams. For a while there you made it ok to wear a white polo neck sweater with a christmas tree on it.

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Cattle can also be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. However, vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.

So let me get  this straight. We don't immunise cattle against TB preventing them getting it, because the vaccine prevents us from reliably telling if it worked or not and if they got TB despite the vaccine. So instead we'll kill Badgers despite knowing that incomplete removal of the badger population results in them spreading across the country carrying TB to places that don't currently have it.

This is one of those political problems with entrenched vested interests where the truth was thrown out long ago, right? 

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So as we throw the damp rizla packet of disappointment into the overflowing ashtray of sadness and hope that the weekend's big fish doesn't eat the little fish in the cardboard box, we realize that it's not that bad, it's just another rainy monday.
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In 2010, in the USA, datacentre electricity use was 2% of the national total electricity use. Worldwide, datacentres use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants. This is probably on a rapid exponential growth rate (anyone know?) so while it's astonishing to see so much energy being used to power the computronium, it's also a huge opportunity for energy savings. 

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Low power FM radio transmission of found and donated sounds within a 10 mile radius in the middle of one of the darkest and really quite remote places on earth in Galloway Forest in Dumfriesshire. Including transmissions from a Russian woman cosmonaut who didn't come back. The found sounds are transmitted once and then deleted. The whole project is then linked with a book festival in one of the most out of the way towns nearby.

My kind of art project.

http://www.thedarkoutside.com/index.php/radio-transmissions/
http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/
http://thewire.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&article=9822

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